If I am correct, MRP was the old term Manufacturing Resource Planning,
the new term ERP is Enterprise Requirements Planning.


Michael A. Dobies
BI, Incorporated
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        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Paul Christensen [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
        Sent:   Thursday, October 23, 1997 5:54 AM
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        Subject:        Technical Terms

        I realize this is probably a terrible mistake to admit I don't
know some of
        these technical
        terms, when I adverstise myself as an HP3000 Professional, but
here goes anyway;

        Clip from a recent posting on HP in PC magazine;

        No self-respecting CEO or CFO can get
        >together with his buddies unless he can talk about his ERP
project.
        >And, like it or not, SAP and Baan have won the war for mind
share in
        >ERP.

        Now in my knowledge, ERP is the sound made when I guzzle my diet
coke.  And I
        always
        thought a SAP was a person who bought IBM equipment (CEO and
CFO, I have heard
        of,
        never met one, but have heard of).   So what the heck is ERP?


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